List of rivers of Massachusetts
List of rivers in Massachusetts (U.S. state).
All Massachusetts rivers flow to the Atlantic Ocean. The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name, arranged travelling upstream along the larger stream.
By drainage
Gulf of Maine north of Cape Ann
- Merrimack River
- Parker River
- Rowley River
- Eagle Hill River
- Ipswich River
- Castle Neck River
- Essex River
- Annisquam River
- Charles River
- Neponset River
- Weymouth Fore River
- Weymouth Back River
- Weir River
- Bound Brook (In 1640 Bound Brook formed the border between the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies.)
- North River
- South River
- Green Harbor River
- Back River
- Bluefish River
- Jones River
- Town Brook
- Eel River
- Boat Meadow River
- Pamet River
- Little Pamet River
- Herring River (5 streams, all on Cape Cod)
- Mitchell River
- Oyster Pond River
- Andrews River
- Red River
- Swan Pond River
- Bass River
- Parkers River
- Centerville River
- Marstons Mill River
- Little River
- Santuit River
- Mashpee River
- Quashnet River
- Childs River
- Coonamesset River
- Wild Harbor River
- Pocasset River
- Back River
- Wareham River
- Weweantic River
- Mattapoisett River
- Nasketucket River
- Acushnet River
- Little River
- Slocums River
- Westport River
- Taunton River
- Lees River
- Cole River
- Kickamuit River
- Warren River (RI)
- Barrington River (RI)
- Palmer River
- Seekonk River (RI)
- Ten Mile River
- Blackstone River
- Abbott Run
- Peters River
- Mill River
- Branch River (RI)
- Clear River (RI)
- Nipmuc River (RI)
- Clear River (RI)
- West River
- Mumford River
- Quinsigamond River
- Middle River
- Thames River (RI)
- Shetucket River (RI)
- Connecticut River
- Farmington River (CT)
- East Branch Farmington River (CT)
- West Branch Farmington River
- Scantic River
- Farmington River (CT)
- Westfield River
- Mill River (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- Chicopee River
- Stony Brook
- Manhan River
- Mill River (Northampton, Massachusetts)
- Fort River
- Mill River (Hatfield, Massachusetts)
- Mill River (Hadley, Massachusetts)
- Sawmill River
- Deerfield River
- Fall River (Connecticut River)
- Millers River
- Hudson River (NY)
Alphabetically
- Aaron River
- Abbott Run
- Aberjona River
- Acushnet River
- Agawam River
- Alewife Brook
- Andrews River
- Annisquam River
- Artichoke River
- Assabet River
- Assonet River
- Back River (Buzzards Bay)
- Back River (Lake Attitash)
- Back River (Massachusetts Bay)
- Back River (Merrimack River)
- Back River (Powwow River)
- Barrington River
- Bass River (Danvers River)
- Bass River (Nantucket Sound)
- Batchelor Brook
- Bear River
- Beaver Brook
- Blackstone River
- Blackwater River
- Blue Hill River
- Bluefish River
- Boat Meadow River
- Bourne Wharf River
- Broad Marsh River
- Buck River
- Bumps River
- Bungay River
- Burnshirt River
- Canoe River
- Castle Neck River
- Cedar Swamp River
- Centerville River
- Charles River
- Chickley River
- Chicopee River
- Childs River
- Chockalog River
- Clam River
- Cochato River
- Cochichewick River
- Cold River
- Cole River
- Concord River
- Connecticut River
- Coonamesset River
- Copicut River
- Cotley River
- Cranberry River
- Crooked Meadow River
- Crooked River
- Deerfield River
- Drinkwater River
- Duck Hill River
- Eagle Hill River
- East Branch Green River
- East Branch Housatonic River
- East Branch Mill River
- East Branch Neponset River
- East Branch North River
- East Branch Palmer River
- East Branch Sippican River
- East Branch Swift River
- East Branch Tully River
- East Branch Ware River
- East Branch Westport River
- East Brookfield River
- East Meadow River
- Eel River
- Egypt River
- Essex River
- Fall River (Connecticut River)
- Fall River (Farmington River)
- Farm River
- Five Mile River
- Forest River
- Forge River
- Fort River
- French River
- Fresh River
- Great Brook (Westfield River)
- Green Harbor River
- Green River (Cold River)
- Green River (Deerfield River)
- Green River (Hoosic River)
- Green River (Housatonic River)
- Herring River
- Hockomock River
- Hoosic River/Hoosac River
- Housatonic River
- Hubbard River
- Indian Head River
- Indian River
- Ipswich River
- Jones River (Annisquam River)
- Jones River (Kingston Bay)
- Keene River
- Kettle Brook
- Kickamuit River
- Kinderhook Creek
- Konkapot River
- Lees River
- Little Pamet River
- Little River (Alewife Brook)
- Little River (Annisquam River)
- Little River (Blackwater River)
- Little River (Cotuit Bay)
- Little River (French River)
- Little River (Merrimack River)
- Little River (Parker River)
- Little River (Slocums River)
- Little River (Westfield River, North)
- Little River (Westfield River, South)
- Little Wood Island River
- Long Pond River
- Mad River
- Malden River
- Manhan River
- Marstons Mill River
- Mashpee River
- Matfield River
- Mattapoisett River
- Merrimack River
- Middle Branch Swift River
- Middle Branch Westfield River
- Middle River
- Miles River
- Mill River (Annisquam River)
- Mill River (Charles River)
- Mill River (Hadley, Massachusetts)
- Mill River (Hatfield, Massachusetts)
- Mill River (Massachusetts – Rhode Island)
- Mill River (Northampton, Massachusetts)
- Mill River (Parker River)
- Mill River (Saugus River)
- Mill River (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- Mill River (Taunton River)
- Mill River (Weymouth Back River)
- Millers River
- Mitchell River
- Monatiquot River
- Muddy River
- Mumford River
- Mystic River
- Nashua River
- Nasketucket River
- Nemasket River
- Neponset River
- Nissitissit River
- North Branch Hoosic River
- North Branch Manhan River
- North Branch Mill River
- North Branch Millers River
- North Branch Swift River
- North Nashua River
- North River (Danvers River)
- North River (Deerfield River)
- North River (Massachusetts Bay)
- Old Swamp River
- Otter River
- Oyster Pond River
- Palmer River
- Pamet River
- Parker River
- Parkers River
- Paskamanset River
- Peters River
- Pine Point River
- Pines River
- Plymouth River
- Pocasset River
- Poor Meadow Brook
- Powwow River
- Priest Brook
- Prince River
- Quaboag River
- Quashnet River
- Quequechan River
- Quinapoxet River
- Quinebaug River
- Quinsigamond River
- Quiquechan River
- Red River
- Roger Island River
- Rowley River
- Rumford River
- Runnins River
- Salisbury Plain River
- Salmon Brook
- Santuit River
- Satucket River
- Saugus River
- Sawmill River
- Scantic River
- Schneelock Brook
- Seapit River
- Segreganset River
- Seven Mile River (East Brookfield River)
- Sevenmile River (Tenmile River)
- Shawsheen River
- Shingle Island River
- Shumatuscacant River
- Sippican River
- Skug River
- Snake River
- South Branch Mill River
- South Branch Souhegan River
- South Fork Little River
- South River (Deerfield River)
- South River (Massachusetts Bay)
- Southwest Branch Housatonic River
- Spicket River
- Squannacook River
- Still River
- Stillwater River
- Stony Brook
- Stop River
- Stream River
- Sudbury River
- Swan Pond River
- Swift River (Ware River)
- Swift River (Westfield River)
- Sudbury River
- Taunton River
- Ten Mile River
- Three Mile River
- Tiasquam River
- Town Brook
- Town River
- Tully River
- Umpachene River
- Wading River
- Walker Creek
- Wankinco River
- Ware River
- Wareham River
- Weir River
- West Branch Charles River
- West Branch Farmington River
- West Branch Green River
- West Branch Housatonic River
- West Branch Mill River
- West Branch North River
- West Branch Palmer River
- West Branch Sippican River
- West Branch Swift River
- West Branch Tully River
- West Branch Ware River
- West Branch Westfield River
- West Branch Westport River
- West River
- Westfield River
- Westport River
- Weweantic River
- Weymouth Back River
- Weymouth Fore River
- Whiting River
- Whitman River
- Wild Harbor River
- Williams River
- Winnetuxet River
References
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- Professor Higbee's Stream Map of New England. (1995). Vivid Publishing, Inc..
External links
- "Assessment Data for the State of Massachusetts Year 2006", Environmental Protection Agency.